Thomas Haynes Bayly

O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago; The schoolmaster over…

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

Absence makes the heart go fonder

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings!

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

Oh, pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep.

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Prolonged absence makes the heart forget.

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

We met, 'twas in a crowd, and I thought he would shun me.

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

Oh, I have roamed o'er many lands, And many friends I've met; Not one fair scene or kindly smile Can this fond…

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

Why don't the men propose, Mamma? Why don't the men propose?

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

Where's the hope that can abate The grief of hearts thus desolate That can Youth's keenest pangs assuage, And mitigate the gloom…

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be.

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago.

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

I'd be a butterfly; living a rover, Dying when fair things are fading away.

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

I'm saddest when I sing.

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

Surely 't is better, when summer is over To die when all fair things are fading away.

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

Oh! where do fairies hide their heads, When snow lies on the hills, When frost has spoiled their mossy beds, And crystallized…

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

She wore a wreath of roses, The night that first we met.

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day; Be content with the moon and the…

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep.

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

The rose that all are praising Is not the rose for me.

— Thomas Haynes Bayly